Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto...
Water Rights and the Environment in the United States: A Documentary and Reference Guide
A Documentary and Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This sweeping study traces the development of water policy in the United States from the 19th century to the present day, exploring the role of legislation in appropriating access to water to the American people.
• Addresses recent events including the handling of Hurricane Katrina and the...
Crossroads
Environmental Priorities For The Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The environmental movemtoday is at a critical crossroads. Crossroads: Environmental Priorities for the Future is an in-depth assessmof the movement's successes and failures, and also offers prescriptions for the future. It includes contributions from some of the country's top environmental leaders...
Wilderness Forever
Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2006 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
As a central figure in the American wilderness preservation movement in the mid-twentieth century, Howard Zahniser (1906-1964) was the person most responsible for the landmark Wilderness Act of 1964. While the rugged...
Proving Grounds
Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Proving Grounds brings together a wide range of scholars across disciplines and geographical borders to deepen our understanding of the environmental impact that the U.S. military presence has had at home and abroad. The essays in this collection survey the environmental damage caused by weapons testing...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically. From the Great Smog of London to the Kuwait Oil Fires, and from the ashes of Mount St Helens to air pollution in Beijing, this book chronicles their enduring legacies...
The Yosemite
John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
‘All these colours, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine.’
Having spent significant time obsessively exploring and learning about the Sierra, John Muir’s passion for and belief in preserving the wilderness...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—has multifarious possibilities in applied remediation...
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the...
The Mediterranean region under climate change
A scientific update
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
This book has been published by Allenvi (French National Alliance for Environmental Research) to coincide with the 22nd Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) in Marrakesh. It is the outcome of work by academic researchers on both sides of the Mediterranean...
Fisheries in the Pacific
The challenges of governance and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Fisheries in the Pacific: The Challenges of Governance and Sustainability is a multidisciplinary book, which examines various aspects of coastal and oceanic fisheries in Pacific waters. These interrelated fisheries sectors are critical for regional food security and also represent a reserve of food...
Allied Power
Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada's Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact...
Water
Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy
Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Common topics and commonplaces help develop arguments and shape understanding. When used in argumentation, they may help interested parties more effectively communicate valuable information. The purpose of this edited collection on topics of environmental rhetoric is to fill gaps in scholarship related...